Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:24:21AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> > * git pull --set-upstream
> >
> >   This is vaguely related to another itch that nobody has bothered to
> >   fix: 'git fetch origin foo' should really update origin/foo.  This has
> >   been discussed on the list a few times already:
> >
> >     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192252
> >     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165720/focus=165758
> >
> >   which by the way would be a *great* thing to fix, hint hint ;-)  and
> >   since Peff already posted a POC patch in the first thread, it's
> >   probably not that hard.  (Peff?)
> 
> My understanding is that this would be technically easy to fix, but a
> migration plan is needed, which isn't easy for a one-shot, one-month
> contribution.

Yes. The concept isn't that hard, but the question was one of whether it
would break some obscure workflows. But I don't remember all of the
details; I think I gave some examples in past threads.

-Peff